Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) ...

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...

Scientists still find thousands of new species on Earth every year, but finding a new mammal is a relative rarity. Scientists have found not one, but two new species of mole native to southeastern ...

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A De Winton's golden mole. A member of the species hadn't been definitely seen since 1936. JP Le Roux Thanks to a sniffing dog and traces of DNA left in the sand, scientists have found a species of ...

SOUTH AFRICA, — A golden mole that "swims" in sand has resurfaced in South Africa after 87 years in the wilderness when many specialists feared it had become extinct, researchers announced. Traces of ...